"But, Arthur, he has not been home since morning," said Anna Carroll, "and Martin has been to the school-house, and the master says that Eddy did not return at all after the noon intermission, and he did not come home to dinner, after all." "Yes, he did not come home to dinner," said Mrs.Carroll; "and the butcher did send the roast of veal, after all.

I was afraid he would not, because he had not been paid for so long, and I thought Eddy would come home so hungry.

But the butcher did send it, but Eddy did not come.

He cannot have had a thing to eat since morning, and all he had for breakfast were rolls and coffee.

Thee egg-woman would not leave any more eggs, she said, until she was paid for the last two lots, and--" Carroll pulled out a wallet and handed a roll of notes, not to his wife, but to his sister Anna, who came half-way down the stairs and reached down a long, slender white arm for it.
"There," said he, "pay up the butcher and the egg-woman to-morrow.